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Chop suey, usa
American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. Chop Suey, USA offers a comprehensive chronicle of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastro...
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Global anti-asian racism
This volume illuminates the multifaceted nature of global anti-Asian racism and the resilience of Asians across the world to resist and counter this bigotry and bias.
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A framework for immigration
Although stereotypically portrayed as academic and economic achievers, Asian Americans often live in poverty, underserved by human services, undercompensated in the workforce, and subject to discrimination. Although often perceived as a single, homogenous group, there are significant differences ...
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Asian american elders in the twenty-first century
Asian Americans make up a diverse ethnic group in the Unites States and are among the fastest growing population of adults sixty-five years and older. Most Asian Americans are either first-generation immigrants who grew up in the United States or individuals who joined their American families lat...
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Chinatown, honolulu
This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.
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Sights of contestation
The fourteen essays presented in this volume examine the diverse ways in which cultural products are shaped and re-shaped in public spaces in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and some other countries in the Pacific in their continuing encounters with the forces of localism and globalism.Various th...
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One out of three
This absorbing anthology features in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, revealing the surprising new realities of immigrant life in twenty-first-century New York City.
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A tragedy of democracy
The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events but also studies t...
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The feminist pacific
The Feminist Pacific examines transnational networks in Hawai‘i beginning in 1820, with the arrival of American missionary wives, and through the rise of women’s internationalism in the interwar years.
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Chinese prodigal
From an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country After his father’s passing in 2019, David Shih sought to unravel the underlying tensions that defined the complex relationship betw...
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Nowhere to be home
Nowhere to Be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called “the textbook example of a police state.”
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Louder than the lies
A primer on racism that offers an intersectional, anti-racist, coalition-building view of Asian American identity."This is and will be a necessary and useful tool for generations to come." —Jenny Wang, author of Permission to Come HomeWhat does it mean to be Asian American? How does our racializa...
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The winged seed
A reissue of acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's heart-wrenching memoir, with a new foreword by the author and never-before-seen photos.
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Seeing like a child
Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist AnthropologyFinalist, 2022 Victor Turner PrizeAn utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.Seeing Like a Child is a dee...
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The city of good death
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant WritingShortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizePriyanka Champaneri’s transcendent, prize-winning debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the rel...
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Antiman
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped his experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet and immigrant to the U...
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The face: a time code
“Ruth Ozeki, a Zen Buddhist priest, sets herself the task of staring at her face in a mirror for three full, uninterrupted hours; her ruminations ripple out from personal and familial memories to wise and honest meditations on families and aging, race and the body.” —Minneapolis Star TribuneWhat ...
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Dēmos
“Unflinching, unrelenting, disarming, and brilliant . . . A powerhouse collection of poems by a powerhouse poet.” —VICTORIA CHANG
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A thousand times you lose your treasure
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYA collection inspired by Hoa’s mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam’s diaspora.Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- an...
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Tethered to stars
From Fady Joudah, an elegant collection of poems that shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and the horoscope.
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Letters to a young brown girl
Reyes’s unapologetic intersectionally feminist “tough love” poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.
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The sunflower cast a spell to save us from the void
Jackie Wang’s magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.
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Migrant aesthetics
Glenda R. Carpio argues that we need a new paradigm for migrant fiction. She shows how contemporary authors expose the historical legacies and political injustices that produce forced migration.
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In the shelter of the pine
In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japa...
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Asian american fiction after 1965
Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia.
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The columbia guide to asian american literature since 1945
Guiyou Huang traces the history of Asian American literature from the end of World War II to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Huang covers six genres: anthology, autobiography/memoir, drama, fiction, poetry, and short fiction; reviews major historical developments and social movements; ...
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The beggar lama
The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century.
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Cross-cultural harlem
Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech, autobiography, and performance, Sandhya Shukla develops a living theory of Harlem, in which peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and borrow from each other, even while Blackness remains crucial.
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Between two shores
This is a story that begins in California and ends in China—a detective tale with a subtle love interest. After a Chinese American man dies in mysterious circumstances near Hangzhou, his wife, an Irish American, goes to China to find out what really happened.
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Wandering from china to america
This autobiography offers a tale of the joys and hardships of simple living in Chinese and American societies.
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Tonal intelligence
Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of “Oriental inscrutability” across a wide range of texts. She puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed m...
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Ravishing
A brilliant and compelling debut, Ravishing shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it capitalizes on our desire to be someone we are notA provocative, darkly surreal novel of two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of a beauty tech company, Ravishing is ...
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Radical
Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a “voice . . . speaking with full freedom” (Wall Street Journal), which has made her one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation. She is the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Nine Continents and a Granta Best Young British Nove...
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End credits
What happens when you land your dream job and everything you've been working toward becomes a complete nightmare? This is Patty Lin's story. She climbed the ladder as an award-winning television writer (often the only Asian person in the room) only to be confronted by discouragement, burnout, and...
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The gate of memory
An anthology of poetry on Nikkei incarceration, written by descendants of the WWII prisons and camps A tribute to the 150,000 people incarcerated by the United States and Canada during WWII, this anthology is the first of its kind. The poetry expresses a range of experiences and perspectives fro...
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Small wars manual
"Small Wars Manual is a masterpiece, one of those books I read and know at once I’ll be coming back to the rest of my life.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A Literary Hub Notable Book of the YearFrom award-winning poet Chris Santiago, a far-reaching collection of erasures and original poems examin...
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Ship of fates
In the gridlocked harbor of San Francisco's Barbary Coast, a ship hung with red paper lanterns draws crowds eager to gamble and drink. Aboard this red-lit ship, the fates of two young women will be altered irrevocably—and tied forever to that of an ancient lighthouse keeper who longs to be free. ...
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Supporting asian american students in multicultural contexts
This book offers an in-depth exploration of Asian American students’ dual language use, literacy development and multicultural identity (re)construction. It guides teachers, teacher educators and parents on supporting racially, linguistically and culturally diverse students in inclusive classrooms.
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The model minority stereotype
This sourcebook assists readers in locating research on the model minority stereotype of Asian American success. Each thematic chapter challenges the stereotype, and the second edition includes updated contents and a twelfth chapter, making it the most comprehensive book on the model minority myt...
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The afterlife is letting go
Chosen one of Booklist's Top Ten History Books of the Year!Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction"The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award–winning The Grave on ...
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Moving the bones
A vulnerable and honest collection of poems exploring lineage, love, and the pandemic, from one of the most acclaimed poets of his generation.“You are told to believe in one paradise / and then there is the paradise you come to know,” begins Rick Barot. What follows is an account of the rich and ...
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Eladatl
A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes."Foster and Romo's 'real fake dream' of the future-past history of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines is ...
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World of wonders
“Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year.” —NPRA New York Times BestsellerBarnes & Noble Book of the YearBeloved author Aimee Nezhukumatathil's celebrated work of nonfiction, now including additional essays and illustrations. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home:...
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Dmz colony
A powerful work of cultural memory that recovers voices from Korea's heartbreakingly violent postcolonial history.
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Dura
The 10th anniversary edition of this classic of Asian America and experimental poetry features a Preface by Juliana Spahr and an Afterword by Stephen Hong Sohn.
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